The NBA suspended the season for at least 30 days on Wednesday after Jazz center Rudy Gobert tested positive for COVID-19, which the World Health Organization declared a pandemic earlier this week. On Thursday, it was announced that Gobert's teammate Donovan Mitchell was also infected.

This week saw almost every major American sports organization cancel games or suspend operations. The MLB canceled all of spring training and suspended at least the first two weeks of the season. The NHL has suspended play indefinitely. March Madness was canceled.

There are more than 135,400 confirmed cases of the virus globally across at least 111 countries. In the U.S., at least 1,875 have been diagnosed with COVID-19, with more than 41 dead.